Minor in Urban and Public Affairs

Minor Overview

The School of Urban and Public Affairs offers a minor to students interested in complementing their academic career with a broader understanding of Urban Affairs, Urban Planning and the Environment, or Public Administration. Students pursuing the minor complete 2 required core courses then select 4 courses from one of the fields listed below. The minor requires 18 hours of coursework. (Before registering for any course, students should consult with the advisor in their major field of study.)

Students interested in adding the Minor in Urban and Public Affairs to their degree plan should send inquiries to arch.advising@uta.edu.

REQUIRED CORE COURSES -- 6 hours

URPA 1301 Intro to Urban LifeURPA 3301 The Metroplex

FIELD OF INTEREST (SELECT ONE) - 12 hours

Public Administration

Student should select four courses from the list below:

ACCT 3309 Accounting for Managers

ACCT 4325 Governmental Accounting

ANTH 4348 Political Anthropology

COMM 4305 Communication and Society

COMM 4330 Political Communication

COMM 4335 Intercultural Communication

COMS 3309 Organizational Communication

COMS 3310 Group Communication Theory

COMS 3316 Communication in Human Relations

CRCJ 3336 Law Enforcement Management

CRCJ 3338 Juvenile Justice System

CRCJ 4309 Private Security System

ECON 3304 Public Sector Economics

ECON 3313 Industrial Organization & Public Policy

ECON 3335 Economics of Public Policies

ECON 4330 Labor Economics

MANA 3318 Managing Organizational Behavior

MANA 3319 Management Process Theory

MANA 3320 Human Resource Management

MANA 4320 Labor Relations

MANA 4325 Leadership in Organizations

MANA 4328 Human Resource Staffing and Performance Management

MANA 4330 Team Management

MANA 4341 Negotiations and Conflict

PHIL 2312 Ethics

POLS 2312 State & Local Government

POLS 3303 Introduction to Public Administration

POLS 3305 Government in Urban America

POLS 3307 State and Local Politics

POLS 3308 Politics of a Texas City: Arlington City Politics

POLS 4303 Public Administration and the Political Process

POLS 4331 U.S. Constitutional Law: Government Power

POLS 4353 Public Budgeting and Taxation

PSYC 3301 Psychology of Human Relations

PSYC 3302 Business Psychology

Urban Planning and the Environment

Student should select four courses from the list below:

ARCH 3331 Architecture and Environment

ARCH 4305 The City of Rome

ARCH 4306 Urban Design Theory

ARCH 4308 History of Urban Form

ARCH 4309 The City of London

ARCH 4314 Historical Preservation and Restoration

BLAW 3314 Real Estate Law

CE 3302 Transportation Engineering

CE 3334 Principles of Environmental Engineering

CE 4311 Urban Transportation Infrastructure Planning

CE 4313 Traffic Engineering

CIRP 4320 Sustainable Communities

CIRP 4391 Studies in City and Regional Planning (with permission of instructor)

ECON 3328 Principles of Transportation

ECON 4302 Environmental Economics

GEOG 3350 Reading the Landscape (also HIST 3350)

GEOG 3355 Environmental History of the US (also HIST 3355)

GEOL 1430 Global Warming

GEOL 2406 Natural Resources & Sustainability

GEOL 4331 Analysis of Spatial Data

HIST 3350 Reading and the Landscape

HIST 3355 Environmental History of the U.S

HIST 3362 US Urban History

POLS 2312 State and Local Government

POLS 4351 Energy Policy and Administration

PSYC 3316 Environmental Psychology

REAE 3325 Real Estate Fundamentals

REAE 4314 Real Estate Development

SOCI 3336 Social Inequality

SOCI 3353 Social Climate of Cities

Urban Affairs

Student should select four courses from the list below:

ANTH 2322 Global Cultures

ANTH 3339 Urban Anthropology

ANTH 3355 The Rise of Civilization

CIRP 4320 Sustainable Communities

COMM 4305 Communication and Society

COMM 4330 Political Communication

COMM 4335 Intercultural Communication

COMS 3310 Group Communication Theory

COMS 3316 Communication in Human Relations

CRCJ 3380 Race, Crime, and Justice

CRCJ 4301 The American Judicial System

CRCJ 4325 Gangs

ECON 2337 Econ in Social Issues

ECON 3302 The Economics of Crime

ECON 3335 Economics of Public Policies

ECON 4330 Labor Economics

GEOG 3350 Reading the Landscape (also HIST 3350)

HIST 2302 History of Civilization

HIST 3350 Reading and the Landscape

HIST 3351 History of Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

HIST 3362 Cities and Suburbs in US History

HIST 3366 African-American History 1865-Present

HIST 3368 History of the Mexican American

HIST 3373 US Economic History, 1860-Present

HUMA 4302 Social and Political Theory

INTS 4388 Special Topics in INTS: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the City